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An April Fool Alfred Austin	``My meal is a shive of the miller's loaf, And hunger the grace that blesses: 'Tis banquet enough for a village oaf, With a handful of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ettin Trails Payton Hayes	Here, he lumbers, like an oaf Towing up into the sky, Watching down upon the grove, With his four golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Evarra And His Gods Rudyard Kipling	And marvelled, being very near to God, What oaf on earth had made his toil God's law, Till God said mocking: "Mock...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Garden Francies Robert Browning	Then I went in-doors, brought out a loaf, Half a cheese, and a bottle of Chablis; Lay on the grass and forgot the oaf Over a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ignoramus Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Unlettered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Library Robert William Service	" they jibe; "you undiscerning Moronic oaf, you make a fuss, With highbrow swank selecting us; Saying: "I'll read you all some day' - And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oh, when will you stand forth? Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	For my people has made me an oaf, Hides my poetry's fount in the fog of its fleers, So it merely a pool of self-worship...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue to the True Widow John Dryden	Time was, when none would cry,—That oaf was me; But now you strive about your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
That Dude Goliath Doug Blair	Hears the Big Oaf Maligning the God of Israel Angel...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fool and the Fire Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	An oaf with a match in a mile of grass, Where yesterday the skies shone clear; But fury leapt where...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hard Fall Stephen Knox	much time to see that this rude selfish oaf was a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Intro Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	An' I kin take me oaf I wus...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Intro Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	An' I kin take me oaf I wus...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Week : Tuesday; or, the Ditty John Gay	When hungry thou stood'st staring like an Oaf, I slic'd the luncheon from the barley loaf, With crumbled bread I thicken'd well thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson	Infirm, melancholy, Jealous glancing around, An oaf, an accomplice, He poisons the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The World Is Upside Down Wallace Dean LaBenne	The oaf is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Verses Found In A Summerhouse At Hales-Owen George Gordon Lord Byron	This guiltless oaf his vacancy of sense Supplied, and amply too, by innocence Did modern swains, possess'd of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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